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Updated: May 22, 2025

I recall that as we rode a little out of our way past the Army Building, merely to see if there was any excitement, we found it a blaze of lights. Something was plainly afoot even at this usually dull period of the year. There=20was treachery of some kind and some trusted employee was involved, I felt instinctively.

Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve - The Poisoned Pen